He had been in a hundred fights and he was never touched with either a knife or a bullet.

Then he crossed Pierre le Rouge when Pierre was only a youngster just come onto the range.

He put two bullets through Pierre, but the boy shot him from the floor and wounded him for the first time.

The charm of McGurk was broken.
"For half a dozen years McGurk was gone; there was never a whisper about him.

Then he came back and went on the trail of Pierre.